Recurring Nightmare

I used to dream that my old parents were insidting I drove their car to do an errand for rhem although they knew I had no driving licence.
They had insisted I could not sit my test before moving from the U K at 16, and I had never been able to afford the mandatory lessons here.
When I linked this dream where I was forced to do something illegal to being morally obliged to doing things I did not feel were right for me, this nightmare stopped.
Perhaps you can use this to find what your dream is linked to.

I am sceptic when it comes to interpreting dreams, I think most are the result of either biochemical changes in our minds when asleep, or our brain processing what happened the previous days, or they reflect deep seated worries and fears.

DH an enthusiastic amdram person often used to have the stage dream described by Indigo8. I ued to dream that I was at a party or other gathering and I had realised the house was on fire or some other such calalmity, but although I tried to get people's attention and warn them so they could escape, no one seemed to hear me or listen to me, which I am sure reflected my feelings of alienation by other people..

Now, I dream, but never remember them.

So interesting to read about other people's recurrent dreams. My regular nightmare finds me lost and unable to find my family or indeed anyone I know. I realise I am all along and it's always in a horrible frightening place. It is obviously a fear of ending up alone but I wish I would stop having it! I wake up all upset for the rest of the day.

My recurring dream is that I can't remember where I've parked my car. I'm wandering along road after road, and can't find it. Another one is looking for a loo. People tell me where it is, and then when I get there it isn't. At which point I wake up and am so relieved that mine is next door.

Mine is always about large spiders. I mean much larger than we ever get in UK. Not giant like horror movies just large. I've taken 4 years to try to ride myself of my arachnophobia and I'm much better. If I have one of those dreams it sets me back a bit. I'm always on the look out. I had to learn to deal with it when my husband died. Therewas no one else but me.

There was one nightmare that I always used to have, as a child, when I was running a high fever..........haven't had it for years though

As a youngster I used to have the same scary dream of someone little in a red cloak and hood chasing me on a bicycle. Nowadays my bad dreams are always about getting lost, either an emergency and I can't find my way to a hospital or just hopelessly lost anywhere. These must relate to the fact that I have no sense of direction and even get lost inside shops.

I’ve had the same recurring dream since I was a child. I’m a passenger in a van, which being driven by a man wearing a duffle coat and we’re driving along a country road near to where I live and I ask the driver a question and he turns to me and he’s actually a skeleton. At this point I always wake up. My mum had two theories one was that the skeleton was actually my dad, who was killed when I was 6 and the other is a story my brothers told me to stop me going near a coal bing, they said the dead bodies of German soldiers were buried under the coal waste and if you disturbed them they pull you under to stay with them.

Galton

Having diverticulosis and often needing the loo , I am always dreaming that I am out and about and looking for the loo and when I find the loo it is never attached to the plumbing system and cannot be used, or I open the toilet door and there is no loo there. Wonder what that means.

Galton I have the exactly the same dream as you, I have IBS and have had the same dream for years.

I don't think I've ever had a nightmare. The type of dream you tend to remember.

Recurring nightmares can signify unresolved issues from the past or it can produce a kind of practice scenario so the dreamer can rehearse their reactions to a threat. Just googled it.

Having diverticulosis and often needing the loo , I am always dreaming that I am out and about and looking for the loo and when I find the loo it is never attached to the plumbing system and cannot be used, or I open the toilet door and there is no loo there. Wonder what that means.

I am forever dreaming about needing the loo! Every public toilet has glass walls. Or no doors. Why? This has gone on for years!

Dee1012 Do you perhaps feel that you have no control over situations at various stages in your life?

Skydancer I dream a lot, mostly nothing to upset me, but the phone one happens every so often. Are you able to actually dial the right number but no one answers or like me, you are unable to actually dial the numbers and have to go back and start again several times!

My friend went to a recommended hypnotist. It worked.
She was at the stage where she was frightened to go to sleep.

If anyone is taking it, Bisopralol is renowned for inducing nightmares. In my case it is all the things that I am terrified of: fire & heights and the scary things that go along with those scenarios. Even watching advertisements and news bulletins - particularly for the latter turn my legs to gello. It is irrational and illogical, I know but I can't help it.

Nightmares and/or anxiety dreams can be caused by a drop in blood sugar ... or at least mine were. You don't have to be diabetic to experience this ... I am not.

A snack plus a teaspoonful of honey at bedtime often aids restful sleep. It works for me.

I had a recurring nightmare of being blind but not wanting anyone to know. I would drive to work and try to carry out my work tasks without anyone noticing that I couldn't see. Obviously this was ridiculous but in the nightmare I was experiencing horrible emotions and fears verging on terror.

A friend came up with a brilliant idea. She said that dreams are often nonsensical and we can use that. She suggested that every bedtime I remind myself that I carried some magic spectacles in my pocket which would help me see. I could put these on and I'd no longer be blind.

I know it sounds crazy but I never had the being blind nightmare again.

I took Kalms with valerian for a while but stopped it when it said very vivid dreams could occur. I had been having terrible dreams, once I awoke and found myself crawling around on the bedroom floor trying to escape something.

Skydancer

*Marg75*. How strange that we should have such similar dreams. I dream vividly most nights but the phone dream happens more than anything else. In the dream I become more and more distressed not being able to contact someone-usually my husband.

I also dream I am trying to contact my husband to pick me up because I am really late for something important but when I call him it is such a bad line I can’t hear him. He often wakes me up because I have been shouting in my sleep.

I have a recurring dream in which I wake my husband up to warn him that we have left the children in the kitchen. In the dream I can look down through a glass floor and see a kitchen with toddlers wandering around it. They don't appear to be our children or grandchildren and it's not our actual kitchen.

Marg75. How strange that we should have such similar dreams. I dream vividly most nights but the phone dream happens more than anything else. In the dream I become more and more distressed not being able to contact someone-usually my husband.

My daughter told me today that her 8 year old son had a
nightmare last night which upset him.
"He was in a war and going to be killed by a mattrass"
I can't stop laughing, poor little chap.

Skydancer I have a similar recurring dream, I keep trying to dial a number but keep getting it wrong. I try and try but I can't put in the right number. I've had the same dream for years.

Since my Mum passed away nearly 20 years ago I frequently have dreams of going into my Mum & Dad's lounge and she's sitting on the sofa and I tell her I thought she was dead and I've been looking for her everywhere. I hug her and cry.

So not scary, but I do sometimes get very upset when I wake up - it's so real that I wake up and for a nanosecond I think she's still with us.